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Seven days of fasting transforms the human body

ketanmaheshwari — Fri, 22 May 2026 17:47:43 +0000

Article URL: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/05/260517030404.htm

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48239065

Points: 4

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The Cult of Costco (2025)

ketanmaheshwari — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 19:25:24 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/2025/12/costco-is-an-american-achievement/685411/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46468352

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

The Electric Typewriter

ketanmaheshwari — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 12:11:31 +0000

Article URL: https://tetw.org

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46391335

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by ketanmaheshwari in "Advent of Compiler Optimisations 2025"

ketanmaheshwari — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 14:59:00 +0000

I am personally interested in the code amalgamation technique that SQLite uses[0]. It seems like a free 5-10% performance improvement as is claimed by SQLite folks. Be nice if he addresses it some in one of the sessions.

[0] https://sqlite.org/amalgamation.html

New comment by ketanmaheshwari in "Underrated reasons to be thankful V"

ketanmaheshwari — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 21:43:28 +0000

Eating cardamom as I read this. My go to spice to keep mouth busy and flavorful and stay away from junk food.

New comment by ketanmaheshwari in "Tell HN: Happy Thanksgiving"

ketanmaheshwari — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 18:45:14 +0000

Happy Thanksgiving everyone. What are your plans for the long weekend if you don't mind sharing.

New comment by ketanmaheshwari in "Awk Technical Notes (2023)"

ketanmaheshwari — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 20:32:53 +0000

This pipeline may be significantly reduced by replacing cut's with awk, accommodating grep within awk and using awk's gsub in place of tr.

New comment by ketanmaheshwari in "Project Euler"

ketanmaheshwari — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 14:42:15 +0000

I used the regular version. Actually, I don't even know what is multiple-precision values -- will look it up.

New comment by ketanmaheshwari in "Project Euler"

ketanmaheshwari — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 19:57:18 +0000

I solved a few using AWK, fun: https://github.com/ketancmaheshwari/projecteuler

New comment by ketanmaheshwari in "Michael Burry a.k.a. "Big Short",discloses $1.1B bet against Nvidia&Palantir"

ketanmaheshwari — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 15:17:11 +0000

I am interested in quantitative / probabilistic analysis on your thesis. Where should I go look?

If we can find information by asking GenAI, who needs the Web?

ketanmaheshwari — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 22:06:59 +0000

Article URL: https://cacm.acm.org/opinion/will-ai-destroy-the-world-wide-web/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44990435

Points: 29

# Comments: 60

New comment by ketanmaheshwari in "How to Firefox"

ketanmaheshwari — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 11:51:33 +0000

Does anyone know how to reliably use Firefox from command line to take screenshots? It used to work well a few years ago but now it does not. For one, it asks that Firefox is already running and I need to kill it. This is surprising -- why can't two Firefox processes run at the same time?

New comment by ketanmaheshwari in "Commercial jet collides with Black Hawk helicopter near Reagan airport"

ketanmaheshwari — Thu, 30 Jan 2025 14:31:22 +0000

Is this true for the trained pilots as well?

New comment by ketanmaheshwari in "Ask HN: Recommendation for a SWE looking to get up to speed with latest on AI"

ketanmaheshwari — Wed, 27 Nov 2024 19:52:04 +0000

https://a16z.com/ai-canon/

New comment by ketanmaheshwari in "Ask HN: Should the C++ committee freeze STD and make STD2?"

ketanmaheshwari — Tue, 15 Oct 2024 15:09:42 +0000

I have no skin in the game and rarely code in C++. My answer is: no.

New comment by ketanmaheshwari in "Getting my daily news from a dot matrix printer"

ketanmaheshwari — Fri, 04 Oct 2024 23:50:51 +0000

Somewhat relevant, I use this little script to open front page of NYTimes daily morning on my macbook:

d=$(date +%d)

m=$(date +%m)

y=$(date +%Y)

wget -q https://static01.nyt.com/images/$y/$m/$d/nytfrontpage/scan.p... && open ./scan.pdf

New comment by ketanmaheshwari in "You Too Could Have Made Curl"

ketanmaheshwari — Wed, 02 Oct 2024 15:52:40 +0000

"Very few things are an immediate success". Wise words.

New comment by ketanmaheshwari in "Ask HN: Learning Linux from Scratch"

ketanmaheshwari — Thu, 22 Aug 2024 19:01:18 +0000

This may be a good starting point: https://linuxupskillchallenge.org/

Meditation Made Easy (2017) [video]

ketanmaheshwari — Fri, 16 Aug 2024 23:24:22 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1e2NB9hHXVc

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41271254

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by ketanmaheshwari in "Ask HN: Company wants us to upskill in AI. What is the best approach?"

ketanmaheshwari — Fri, 09 Aug 2024 20:32:34 +0000

Thank you for your thoughtful suggestions. They are actionable and practical. Much appreciated.